MySQL Conference 2007 Day 4 rolled quickly into the second keynote Scaling MySQL at YouTube by Paul Tuckfield.
The introduction by Paul Tuckfield was; “What do I know about anything, I was just the DBA at PayPal, now I’m just the DBA at youTube. There are only 3 DBA’s at YouTube.”
This talk had a number of great performance points, with various caching situations. Very interesting.
Scaling MySQL at YouTube
Top Reasons for YouTube Scalability
The technology stack:
- Python
- Memcache
- MySQL Replication
Caching outside the database is huge.
It a display of numbers of hits per day it was said “I can neither confirm or deny the interpretation will work here (using an Alexa graph)”. This …
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